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104:25-26 The Lord Delights in the Sea Creatures, Too. After celebrating God's care for the land animals, the song moves on to the open sea . . . which teems with creatures innumerable (corresponding to the fifth creation day, Gen. 1:20-23). (The ships that men sail for merchant activities do not defile the creation order.) Leviathan (see note on Ps. 74:14) here is probably a poetic name for a whale, and is therefore one of the "great sea creatures" (Gen. 1:21). Although the word can be used for an enemy of God, this psalm joins the creation account in portraying the various creatures as subject to the Lord, not opposing him. The admiration continues, as the song says that God formed Leviathan to play in the sea (or, if the alternate rendering in the ESV footnote is followed, he formed it to be his partner in play); throughout this psalm, delight takes the singing congregation far beyond mere utility!